CC110-02 The Cultural Body: How Music, Media, and Medicine Shape Our Cores

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on the topics of body image and beauty as a cultural construct.

Background

These items are located in the reference collection at the PMC library.

International Encyclopedia of Women and Sports (3 volumes)	REF GV709 .I58 2000
Handbook on Mass Media in the United States	REF P92.U5 H36 1994
Images That Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media	REF P 96 .S74 I45 2003
Encyclopedia of children, adolescents, and the media (2 volumes)	REF HQ784 .M3 E53 2007
Body image : a handbook of theory, research, and clinical practice	REF BF697.5 .B63 B617 2002
Venus envy : a history of cosmetic surgery	REF RD119 .H35 1997
Dubious equalities and embodied differences : cultural studies on cosmetic surgery	REF RD119 .D3848 2003
Measuring up : how advertising affects self-image	REF P96 .G44 S54 2002
Body image : understanding body dissatisfaction in men, women, and children	REF BF697.5 .B63 G76 1999

Books and Multimedia

Browse the following call number ranges in the stacks at PMC or any other area libraries.

• BF 697-697.5 (psychology of self-perception)
• HM 1041-1101 (Social perception of the self and others)
• RA 418-418.5 (Medicine and society)

Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below.

Body image Body image AND media Body modification Beauty

Beauty AND race Beauty AND media Medicine AND anthropology Medicine AND culture

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

To start, search the keywords listed above in the following databases.

• LexisNexis Academic Universe: Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
• PsycINFO: The premier database from the American Psychological Association, covering the world's literature in psychology.

Internet Resources

Several internet resources have been selected below.

• Body Icon
  A project by students at the Columbia School of Journalism, this site provides an historical and cultural perspective on body image.
  http://nm-server.jrn.columbia.edu/projects/masters/bodyimage/toc.html
• Beauty and Body Image in the Media
  This site from the Media Awareness Network explores the media’s role in shaping body image and the popular conception of beauty.
  http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_beauty.cfm
• Center for Media Literacy: Advertising and Consumerism
  The Center for Media Literacy offers a collection of articles and reports on the effects of advertising and consumerism on self-image.
  http://www.medialit.org/focus/adv_home.html
• Beauty Check
  This site presents research, conducted at the universities of Regensburg and Rostock in Germany, about why certain physical attributes are considered attractive.
  http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/index.htm

Available in the library's reference area:

Encyclopedia of education	REF LB 15 .E47 2003 v.1-v.8
Philosophy of education: an encyclopedia	REF LB 17 .P485 1996
International handbook of early childhood education	REF LB 1139.23 .I68 1992
Encyclopedia of early childhood education	REF LB 1139.23 .I68 1992
Early childhood curriculum resource handbook: (pre K-3)	REF LB 1139.4 .E175 1993
The Jossey Bass reader on gender in education	REF LC 212.92 .J67 2002
Encyclopedia of special education	REF LC 4007 .E53 1987 v.1-v.3
Education: Meeting America’s needs?	REF LB 2846 .E345 2008

Books

Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse call numbers LA-LD (Education).

Public schools Public education Public change Academic achievement

Education evaluation School improvement programs School management and organization School choice

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

• Expanded Academic ASAP journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, many full text.
• Educator’s Reference Complete : journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. many full text.
• ERIC Database: search for articles from academic education journals
• Teacher Reference Center: Provides information for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
• CQ Researcher: CQ Researcher provides in-depth reports on current, and controversial topics such as "School Choice," "Attack on Public Schools," "Private Management of Public Schools," and "Fixing Urban Schools." CQ offers balanced introductions to issues and includes a generous selection of cross-references to past reports.

Ask a librarian for a listing of education journals in paper format.

Internet Resources

Several internet resources have been selected below.

• ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
  An index to bibliographic records of journal articles and education-related materials
  http://www.eric.ed.gov
• Education Week
  American education's newspaper of record
  http://www.edweek.org/
• Dept. of Education
  Website of the US Department of Education
  http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml
• National Center for Education Statistics
  The NCES, located within the U.S. Dept. of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is a federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
  http://nces.ed.gov
• Gateway to Educational Materials
  Access to learning resources of the GEM collection
  http://www.thegateway.org/
• Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication
  An online collection of resources from theory to lesson plans
  http://reading.indiana.edu/www/index.html
• Milken Family Foundation
  to discover and advance effective ways of helping people help themselves and lead productive lives, through its work in education and medical research
  http://www.mff.org/publications/publications.taf
• Mass Dept of Elementary and Secondary Education/ METCO Program
  A grant program funded by the state, intended to expand educational opportunities, increase diversity, and reduce racial isolation, by permitting students in certain cities to attend public schools in other communities.
  http://www.doe.mass.edu/metco/

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links.

Getting Started

If you haven’t selected a topic yet, or would like to find more information on a topic, reference books like encyclopedias can be a good place to start. Articles may also have a bibliography or suggested resources at the end that can point you to more sources.
All of the encyclopedias and reference books can be found on the first floor.

Encyclopedia of Communication and Information

REF P87.5 E53 2002

Suggested Articles:

Body Image, Media Effect on Sex and the Media Social Change and the Media

Pornography Gays and Lesbians in the Media Gender and the Media

Encyclopedia of Women and Gender

REF P87.5 E53 2002

Suggested Articles:

Beauty Politics and Patriarchy Gender Development: Social Learning Gender Stereotypes

Media Influences Media Stereotypes Men and Masculinity

Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film

REF PN1993.45 G65 2007

Reference Books

The Black Image in the White Mind

REF P 94.5 .A372 U55 2001

Suggested Chapters:

• Violence, Stereotypes and African Americans in the News
• Reflecting on the End of Racial Representation
• Culture, Meida and the White Mind

Images that Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media

REF P 96 .S74 I45 2003

Suggested Chapters:

• Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination
• Media Methods That Lead to Stereotypes
• Media Stereotypes of African Americans
• Women as Sex Partners

America on Film

REF PN 1995.9 .M56 B46 2004

Information about how film has created and reinforced concepts of femininity and masculinity. It includes a helpful glossary for looking up unfamiliar terms.

Shaded Lives: African American Women and Television

REF PN 1992.8 .A34 S64 2002

Books

Search the library's online catalog to find books on your topic.

Books on feminism and gender roles can be found starting in the HQ1075 section of the stacks and up. Books on various aspects of pop culture can be found throughout the library- books related to music begin with ML, film and television with PN1990- PN2000. Here are some examples of the many books we have that may help you with your research:

Television and Women’s Culture	HQ 1233.T415 1990
Blacks and White TV	PN 1992.8 .A34 M3 1992
Gender Politics and MTV	PN 1992.8 .M87 L49 1990
Defining Women	PN 1992.77 .C24 D33 1994
Television Culture	PN1992.F57 1987
Color by FOX	PN 1992.8 .A34 Z66 1999
Black American Cinema	PN 1995.9 .N4 B45 1993
Remote Control (Chp. 7)	PN 1992.6 .R46 1989

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

Infotrac: A huge database collection that offers the ability to search multiple databases at once. Click “Selected Cross-Searchable Products” and choose categories that may be useful for your subject. Some possible examples of good databases are Psychology Collection, Diversity Studies Collection, General OneFile, Academic OneFile, and The New York Times.

Lexis-Nexis Academic:Search major news sources such as newspapers, magazines and journals, web publications, and TV and radio transcripts.

Pop Culture Universe: An authoritative digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present. Search by decade, subject, quick search, or use the index. Try searching keywords such as: African American Stereotypes, Media Stereotypes, Minority Stereotyping, or search these articles by title: Screens Fade to Black, But Little Has Changed; Blaxploitation Films; African Americans and Popular Culture: Introduction; African American Stereotypes in Prime-Time Television: An Overview, 1948-2007.

Online Sites and Resources

Here are some websites that may help you find relevant information.

Media Awareness Network- www.media- awareness.ca/english/issues
Nonprofit organization with a comprehensive collection of media and digital literacy resources.

Center for Media Literacy- www.medialit.org/focus/ster_home.html
An educational organization dedicated to promoting and supporting media literacy.

Associated Content- www.associatedcontent.com/article/33262/racial_stereotypes_in_the_media.html
Useful and informative information on a variety of topics, with diverse perspectives.

If you decide to use a search engine to find other resources, then try a search with these phrases: media stereotyping, African American media images, female stereotypes in media, black stereotypes media, pop culture stereotyping, etc.

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on issues of wealth, class, status, and consumption in American society.

Background Information Sources

American Attitudes	REF HN90 .P8 .A527 2005
American Icons	REF E169.1 .A472155 2006
Celebrity Culture Reader	REF CB358 .C45 2006
Consumer Behavior	REF HF5415.32 .B63 2006
Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media(2 vols.)	REF HQ784 .M3 .E53 2007
Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands (3 vols.)	REF HF5415.3 .E527 1994
Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns(2 vols.)	REF HF5837 .E53 2007
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture	REF E169.1 .S764 2000
Marketing and Consumer Identity in Multicultural America	REF HF5415.127 .T48 2001
Marketing to the Mindset of Boomers and Their Elders	REF HF5415.127 .M668 2002
Twentieth Century Teen Culture by the Decades	REF HQ799 .U65 .R65 1999

Books

Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse the following call number ranges: CT, PR, and PS.

American Dream consumer culture consumer behavior consumption

advertising popular culture social values social status

social classes globalization global economy affluence

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

• Expanded Academic ASAP: full-text journal, magazine, & newspaper articles.
• Infotrac: full-text journal, magazine, & newspaper articles.
• CQ Researcher: Provides articles of opposing opinions; use search terms similar to those above.
• LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles.
• General Reference Center: full-text journal, magazine, & newspaper articles.

Internet Resources

Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from the Web Resources page.

• Class Matters
  http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/class/index.html
  New York Times series on social class in America
• People Like Us
  http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus
  site for PBS documentary on social class in America
• New York Social Diary
  http://www.nysocialdiary.com
  Various aspects of upper-class life in New York
• New American Dream
  http://www.newdream.org/
  organization promoting the responsible consumption and production of goods
• Center for a Commercial-Free Childhood
  http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/
  organization countering the harmful effects of marketing to children
• Don't Buy It
  http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit
  media literacy website for young people encouraging users to become smart consumers

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate Reference Books, books, articles, and internet/web links for FYS 101-01.

Reference Books on Immigration

Encyclopedia of American Immigration	REF JV 6465 .E53 2001
Migration and Immigration: A Global View	REF JV 6035 .M542 2004
The Statesman's Yearbook 2008	REF JA 51 .S7 2008

Reference Books on Author Biographies

World Authors	REF PN 451 .W675 1999
Great Women Writers	REF PN 471 .G74 .W675 1999

Books

Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below.

immigration immigration AND Haiti immigration AND India immigration AND China

"Sui Sin Far" "Bharati Mukherjee" "Chita Divakaruni" "Edwidge Danticat"

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

• Literary Reference Center
• Biography Resource Center
• Contemporary Literary Criticism
• Country Watch

Internet Resources

Government Website on Country Profiles

• CIA World Factbook
  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
  

  Citing Sources

  • Library's Brief Guide to Citing Sources
    http://www.pmc.edu/Library/citation/index.html
    

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on philosophical and literary approaches to the concepts of happiness, pleasure, and freedom. Please see the philosophy research guide for more general sources on that subject.

Background Information Sources

Available in the library's reference area:

Encyclopedia of Ethics (3 volumes)	REF BJ63 .E45 2001
Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology (4 volumes)	REF B41.B3
Writers and Philosophers	REF PN49 .T447 1990
Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy	REF B51 .C58 2000 and electronic resource
A Companion to Feminist Philosophy	electronic resource
Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories	electronic resource

Books

Browse the following call number ranges in the stacks at PMC or any other area libraries.

• BD 10-450 (philosophy)
• BF 608-635 (psychology of will, choice, control)
• BJ 1-1725 (ethics)

Search the library catalog for items using the following key words.

Happiness (also browse subject heading) Happiness and philosophy Happiness and economics Happiness and criticism and literature

Pleasure Pleasure and philosophy Freedom Freedom and philosophy

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

To start, search the keywords listed above in the following databases.

• Religion and Philosophy Collection: Provides coverage of different religions, philosophies and how they impact our daily lives. Two hundred and fifty subject-appropriate full-text periodicals are included. Also available off campus.
• LexisNexis Academic Universe: Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
• Literary Reference Center: Use this source to explore literary approaches to the concept of happiness. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.
• PsycINFO: The premier database from the American Psychological Association, covering the world's literature in psychology.

Internet Resources

Several internet resources have been selected below.

• Happiness & Philosophy
  http://vaindesires.blogspot.com/
  A blog about happiness and philosophy, written by a philosophy PhD student. The blog entries themselves should not be considered authoritative, but they may inspire ideas for further research. Several links to other resources about happiness and philosophy are provided.
• Epicurus
  http://www.epicurus.info/etexts.html
  This site compiles several published writings on the Epicurean school of philosophy.
• The Happiness Formula
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/happiness_formula/default.stm
  This is a compendium of articles and multimedia content, compiled by the BBC, about the social, scientific and philosophical aspects of happiness.

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links FYS Food and Culture.

Reference Books

The Oxford companion to food, REF TX349 .D36 2006

Encyclopedia of foods : a guide to healthy nutrition, REF TX349 .E475 2002

The Cambridge world history of food, REF TX353 .C255 2000 V.1

You eat what you are: people, culture and food traditions, REF GT2850 .B37 1999

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

• Expanded Academic ASAP: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
• Infotrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
• General Reference Center: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles

Internet Resources

How can you tell what information is good information online?

Always remember to RECAP:

• Relevance: Is the information relevant to your specific need?
• Expertise: Who is the author of the site? What are his or her qualifications? Authors can be individuals, corporations, organizations, or governments. Every website should have an “About Us” section where you can find information on who is responsible for the site.
• Currency: When was the site last updated? Is the information current?
• Accuracy: Is the information factual? Does the website cite what sources its information is from?
• Purpose: Why is the website there? Does the website have a bias?

Take a break from Google. Try an alternative search engine to search for information on the Web about your topic.  Additional links are available from Web Resources page;

• Internet Public Library
  http://www.ipl.org
  General background information on each topic
• INFOMINE
  http://infomine.ucr.edu/
  Scholarly Internet Resources from the University of California